When Zhao Fang's troops arrived at Nanxun Gate less than half an hour ago, most of the soldiers regarded Ding Haijun's Li Ting's troops as allies, so Li Ting rushed into the city gate without much hindrance.
As a result, after Li Ting's troops entered the city, a fire suddenly broke out in Kaifeng City. The Song Army's troops subconsciously stopped at Nanxun Gate, waiting for orders from the commander Zhao Fang who had entered the city earlier. Zhao Fang and Xuan Zhen were both frightened and angry by this fire, and they were at loggerheads with Hou Zhi, trying to squeeze more benefits from the Kaifeng court.
After all, the two families suddenly turned from enemies to friends. This was not a U-turn of an ordinary small sampan, but a sharp turn of two large ships. Although the waves were rolling on the water, the undercurrents under the water were ten times more mysterious than those on the surface. However, the Kaifeng court was another broken ship, unable to withstand the storm. Although the ship of the Song Dynasty was large enough and secure enough, officials like Zhao Fang had little confidence in the integrity of the imperial court.
On the other hand, although the Kaifeng court desperately needed the support of the Song people to survive, it always wanted to maintain its own dignity and could not be underestimated by the Song people. As the 20,000 Song troops were alone in Kaifeng, they were unavoidably vigilant, fearing that the Kaifeng court would have other sinister plans besides setting fire to frame the enemy.
There are so many things that need to be confirmed on both sides!
In Zhao Fang's opinion, the war of words between the two parties has just begun, and it will take a long time to reach a formal agreement.
At this time, we can see how well prepared Kaifeng has been for this. The Jin army at Lincaiguan fought fiercely and refused to retreat just to buy time for both sides. And both sides felt that with such a large force, and one that was extremely loyal to Dajin, they could at least entangle Ding Haijun for a long time, right?
Even if the Jin army is already in decline and they fight and retreat, the battle will have to be fought for another hour and a half. After the victory is clear, the pursuit of death and the north will take a lot of time.
To put it ten thousand steps back, even if the Jin Army's force is not enough to rely on, Ding Haijun suddenly sees the situation change, and he has to send someone to find out what is going on, and then use his methods, right? It would take half an hour for the scouting horses to go back and forth. After two or three groups of exploring horses came to check, it would be afternoon or evening!
By that time, the Song Dynasty had already rushed to control the outer city of Kaifeng and put the Kaifeng court of the Jin Kingdom in its hands. In turn, it negotiated with Ding Haijun and used the future of the alliance between the Song Dynasty and the Kaifeng court to force Ding Haijun. Speak out more benefits and allow yourself to weigh them.
It can be said that both advance and retreat are in an invincible position. Only one side can get the benefits, and there is no possibility of being coerced by others.
But who would have thought that Ding Haijun would respond so quickly to the fire in Kaifeng?
In less than half an hour, another group of elite cavalry rolled over and crashed into Nanxun Gate. Their speed was as fast as lightning, so fast that the exploring horses deployed by the Song Army in the field had no time to respond. And discerning officers like the Meng Communist Party also immediately recognized that the fierce momentum of those cavalry galloping on horseback was much more terrifying than that of Li Ting's previous troops!
Such cavalry are the backbone of an army of millions; gathered together, they are a terrifying force that can overturn the battlefield situation with a thunderous strike. As a result, the navy dispatched them so quickly and put them on the battlefield again. Kaifeng!
When the Meng Cong rushed to the city to report, Zhao Fang couldn't believe it.
This must be a battlefield where tens of thousands of people from three parties are confronting each other, not just gangsters fighting on the streets. But is it certain that the Navy's style is still so reckless?
It is said that most of the navy's generals are from the lower-level soldiers who are in charge of the sword. Are they really used to their wild ways and don't know the principle of making decisions before taking action?
No, no, there are so many heroes from humble backgrounds, how can we despise Guo Ning?
The only reason is that Ding Haijun seems to be fighting fiercely with the Jin Army, but in fact, he has always reserved his strength!
In this way, those who will die next will become the soldiers of the Song Dynasty! The thousands of lives lost in that fire scene and the hell-like tragic situation on earth are inseparable from the Song Dynasty’s army. That team of cavalry must not be rushing over to fly moths into the flame, but to kill people to vent their anger!
According to the legendary Guo Ning's style, I'm sure he would be the one to kill him himself!
Zhao Fang didn't have time to wait for his entourage to bring the horse over, so he grabbed the corners of his robe and ran towards the city gate. He ran all the way, shouting: "Warning! Let all the departments outside the city assemble and fight against the enemy with all their strength!"
When the Song army conveyed news, they rarely used the whistle, but mostly used flags and trumpets. There were people waving flags and blowing trumpets from all the troops along the way. But this order can be spread outside the city in no time. What is the use of it once it is spread?
The navy cavalry has already arrived outside Nanxun Gate!
The horses galloped like waves, their armor dazzling like tides, roaring over the remaining mounds in the old Yujin Garden site, and then continued charging. In the eyes of the soldiers of the Song Army, they could only feel the dazzling light of their swords, while the cavalry formation was like a copper wall, overwhelming them in one breath!
The Song army had already set up defenses inside and outside Nanxun Gate, but the generals had just arrived at important areas. They had to dispatch their troops to seize many city gates controlled by the Jurchens, and also defend their allies. They were really busy.
The soldiers who were the first to reach the city and planned to take over the city defense looked at the way their rear troops were splitting and howled in terror. Some people ran down the long climbing trail, trying to get out of the city to support, but how could their legs? They couldn't run on four legs, so only a small number of people outside the city formed a stacked formation on the circular high ground of the old Xiannongtan Temple to fight against the heavy cavalry.
But when the main formation was about to be completed and the secondary formation was not completed, many people saw the curly-bearded archer being killed. That man was quite prestigious in the Song army. Many Song soldiers shouted angrily, ignoring the orders of the officers in the formation, and their arrows flew out of the formation like locusts.
Among the soldiers, some cooperated with their companions and were good at using extremely powerful bows to defeat the enemy, with a range of up to 360 paces; some used a short-armed bow with three stones and four buckets, and every time they shot an iron horse within a hundred paces, they responded to the string. fall. These unique weapons, working together, could have formed a rain of arrows that cut off the battlefield.
But at this time, everyone was panicked and angry, and they lost all control. The big arrows were shot out from a long distance. It looked scary, but in fact it had almost no effect on the roaring and galloping cavalry formation. The knights in front of the cavalry reined in a little and turned around, avoiding most of the arrows. Only a few cavalry were hit by arrows and fell off their horses.
Immediately, the cavalry formation suddenly tightened and rushed towards the stacked formation from the front.
The Meng Communists had just rushed out of the city gate. Previously, he was keenly aware of the changes in the battlefield, so he rushed to report to Zhao Fang, but in this way, he happened to miss the fight on his own side. He was so anxious that he shouted from a distance: "Reject the horse! Stand up on the left and right sides to reject the horse!"
The emphasis on stacked formations is to interweave pure formations, and to lock formations against horses, both of which are indispensable.
But it was too late at this moment. Some of the infantrymen carrying the horses were still struggling behind the high ground. The stacked formation set up by the Song army was not complete at all!
Ding Haijun's cavalry were about to collide head-on with each other when they suddenly split into two groups. During the whole process, no one could be heard shouting orders. It was as smooth as water, and it was as if thousands of people and horses had become one and connected. As a whole, spread your arms easily.
The two cavalry groups passed through the dense forest of guns with a slight difference, and then charged towards the two sides of the stacked formation.
In front of their horses, hundreds of spears poked out neatly at almost the same time. The long spears used by the Ding Navy cavalry appear to be cruder than the Song Army's crow-necked spears. In fact, they are extremely well-made, and the blades are a few inches longer and can be used for slashing.
When many spears stabbed forward at the same time, it seemed as if a silver curtain of light suddenly appeared in front of the cavalry.
The next moment, the cavalry roared, the Meng Cong screamed, and the Song soldiers in the formation screamed miserably.
In front of the light curtain, blood mist continued to burst out, and as the light curtain deepened, the blood mist became thicker and thicker, almost covering up the smoke and dust rolled up by the cavalry. Many people were stabbed and fell to the ground spurting blood; many were knocked down by horses and trampled into mud on the ground.
Among the people of the Song Dynasty, there were also brave men with extremely outstanding martial arts. They stood in the gap where the cavalry was running, wildly waving their weapons and blocking the incoming spears. But these people were immediately slashed with swords by the light cavalry coming from behind, leaving no room for their good martial arts to be used.
The roar of the horses galloping was deafening, and the reflection caused by the armor and stomach obscured the sight. The narrow and sharp straight knife fell sharply from all sides, scratched the neck, and the head fell to the ground; when it scratched the body, the armor and stomach opened, and blood flowed across the side!
The Song army is not easy to deal with, but the soldiers in front of them are the elites of hundreds of thousands of people in the Dinghai navy. They can be called the most daring and skillful army in half of the northern half of the country. Once the two parties come into direct contact, the many subtle differences in fighting skills and even coordination, morale, and equipment will immediately become a huge difference between steel and soil!
"Keep charging!"
Ni Yi's sharp ax finally killed the enemy, and it seemed that he was a famous hero among the Song army. Satisfied, he rode his horse forward and gave loud orders. The leading officers of each cavalry group behind him slightly raised their long spears and waved the triangular nap tied to the top of the spears, urging the troops to continue charging forward.
The charge just now had already defeated the Song army at the city gate. The cavalry queues gathered from two groups into one and rushed into Nanxun Gate!
In the city gate hole, the Song troops in the city arrived in large numbers, dozens of large shields raised, and more than a hundred people came one after another to block the passage.
The Ding navy cavalry came to attack after a long distance. There was no heavy cavalry in the team, so it seemed difficult to frustrate the shield array. However, the cavalrymen had no regard for life and death, and forced their horses to collide continuously. In a blink of an eye, the shield at the front was knocked loose.
Hundreds of men and horses fought wildly in the long passage, with blood flowing everywhere, almost filling the deep ruts on the stone floor. And the corpses were falling all over the place, and the living people behind them had no scruples and trampled on them one after another and continued to fight.
The Dinghai navy cavalry further behind had not yet entered the doorway. They looked up and saw from a distance officers and Jurchens dressed as Song soldiers standing side by side on the top of the city. They each dispatched their troops. Groups of Song soldiers holding swords, guns, swords and halberds came from behind. There were swarms of people everywhere on the city walls.
"Song people are indeed distrustful, despicable, and colluded with the Jurchens!"
The officers of the Ding Navy were furious and fired at random on the city with their bows and arrows. For a time, the Song troops at the top of the city dispersed and fled, and instead relied on the city battlements to shoot at the enemy troops below.
In Kaifeng City, Zhao Fang rushed all the way to Nanxun Gate, and people hurriedly came up to cover him from the flow.
He was old and ran so hard that he became dizzy. He couldn't help but bend over and retched twice. When he raised his head, he looked at the fierce fighting in the doorway first, and then at the chaos at the top of the city.
How did you get forced here? How could the fight be so fierce?
Zhao Fang was shocked and angry. He didn't care that there were so many soldiers outside the city who had not yet entered. He shouted repeatedly: "Where is the Jurchen officer guarding the city! Ask him to come out to help and close the city gate! Get down the Thousand Jin Gate!"
It's too late, it's too late.
There was a sound like the sky was falling and the earth was cracking in the city gate, like a flood breaking down a dam. The soldiers of the Song Army who had been blocking the gate and fighting were rolling and crawling back. Immediately, a huge sound wave rushed into the city, and some of the soldiers surrounding Zhao Fang were shaken to the point of being unable to stand and fell down on the spot.
Countless people were heard shouting wildly as Ding Haijun entered the city again.
The man at the front, wearing green antler armor and a gray military robe, holding an iron bone flower, seemed to be swept by a strong wind, sweeping the Song army in front of him like falling leaves, and almost arrived in front of Zhao Fang in the blink of an eye.
Two of Zhao Fang's personal guards each held iron shields and spears to stop him bravely.
The man charged forward on horseback, swung his iron bone flower and smashed it against the iron shield.
Seeing the ferocity of the Iron Bone Duo, the guard hurriedly put his shoulder behind the shield and received the blow forcefully. As a result, the iron shield made a clattering sound under the huge collision and shattered into pieces. The guard groaned, blood gushing from the corner of his mouth, and he stepped back repeatedly. Not to mention that he couldn't lift his shield-holding left arm at all, and half of his body was numb.
Soon after that, another guard rushed in and stabbed the man's horse with his gun. The man laughed, leaned over and grabbed the head of the gun, then pulled it violently into his arms. The guards did not dare to be pulled close by him and fought hard to snatch it back. As soon as the man let go, the guard staggered back ten steps.
At this time, more Dinghai navy cavalry poured into the city. No less than hundreds of horsemen galloped towards the city climbing trail, knocking the Song soldiers on the trail to pieces and falling like wontons. The fastest group of cavalry rushed up to the tower and dispersed the Jurchens called back by the Song army in the blink of an eye.
In the fighting field with blood splattering all around, a knight took out a bright red flag from his arms, put it on the barrel of his gun, and then set it up high on the city platform.
The flag fluttered in the wind. Inside and outside the city, above and below the city, everyone he knew was moved.
More than a hundred steps away from Nanxun Gate, Xuan Zhen rushed here panting. When he saw the flag flying, his face was full of disbelief.
Hou Zhi beside him changed his color in shock, but he grabbed Xuan Zhen and shouted: "He doesn't have many people with him, so we don't need to panic! He is not yet stable, we have a chance!"
Zhao Fang looked at the flag, and then at the enemy general holding the Iron Bone Flower in front of him, his eyes full of surprise, and suddenly mixed with vague shame.
This person is Guo Ning, Duke of Zhou!
Guo Ning immediately stood away from the crowd of dozens of guards, pointed at the iron bone flower, and asked politely: "Are you Zhao Fang?"
"Ahem, exactly..."
After all, Zhao Fang was a member of the Song Dynasty and had to uphold the will of the Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty. He immediately thought about it and came up with four or five language routines to explain the purpose of his actions and accuse the Ding Navy of betraying the alliance and attacking.
But Guo Ning did not argue at all.
A sardonic smile appeared on his ferocious face, which seemed to be made of copper and iron. He stared at Zhao Fang, leaned down slightly and asked, "Excuse me, are you tired of living?"
